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Matthew 15.21-28 Ezekiel 18.1-9 The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, holydays and festivals throughout the ecclesiastical year, to which are added the lives of many saints by Leonard Goffiné (Pustet, 1880). Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays (Benziger, 1896).Continue reading “Thursday of the First Week of Lent”

The First Reading is Exodus 24.12-18, in which Moses goes up on Mount Sinai. The Second Reading is 3 Kings/1 Kings 19.3-8, when Ezekiel is fed by an angel. In the Gospel Reading, Matthew 12.38-50, Jesus responds to the request of the scribes and Pharisees for a sign by referring to the story of theContinue reading “Wednesday in the First Week of Lent / Ember Wednesday”

Today’s Gospel reading tells of Christ Cleansing the Temple from the Gospel of Matthew and coming immediately upon his Entry into Jerusalem, followed by his Healing of the blind and the lame in the Temple. As pictured above at the Monastery of Saint John, it appears a few panels after Christ’s Baptism and thus atContinue reading “Tuesday in the First Week of Lent”